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Phthalates: Study links chemicals widely found in plastics, processed food to elevated blood pressure in children, teens

Now, new research published this Wednesday in the Journal of Pediatrics suggests that certain types of phthalates could pose another risk to children: compromised heart health. Drawing on data from a nationally representative survey of nearly 3,000 children and teens, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Washington [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-26T20:48:59+10:00May 26th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: blood pressure, children, food production, Pediatrics, phthalate, Teenagers|0 Comments

Are boys disadvantaged?

Boys will be boys, they tell us, but how many of us actually take this adage to heart and embrace it? I am the mother of four boys, now all adults. If I think back to their childhoods and adolescence, it’s a whirlwind of movement and physicality, adventure and injury, rough and tumble play, of [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-26T20:47:30+10:00May 26th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: behaviour management, Boys, boys disadvantaged, gender, Parents, teachers, tips|7 Comments

Iodine deficiency during pregnancy may adversely affect children’s mental development

A study of around 1,000 UK mothers and their children, published in The Lancet, has revealed that iodine deficiency in pregnancy may have an adverse effect on children's mental development. The research raises concerns that the iodine status of pregnant women is a public health issue that needs to be addressed. via Iodine deficiency during [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-26T18:39:30+10:00May 23rd, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: children, Iodine deficiency, mental development, mothers, pregnancy, study|0 Comments

Bullies and victims 3 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts by age 11

In a paper published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the researchers found children who are both victims and bullies ('bully-victims'), are at highly increased risk of considering suicide, or have planned and engaged in suicidal or self-harming behaviour by 11-12 years of age. These [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-19T18:34:47+10:00May 19th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: bullies, children, emotional problems, self harm, suicide, victims|0 Comments

Father absence in early childhood linked to depression in adolescent girls

New research from the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol shows that girls whose fathers were absent during the first five years of life were more likely to develop depressive symptoms in adolescence than girls whose fathers left when they were aged five to ten years or than boys in both [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-19T15:05:00+10:00May 19th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: adolescent girls, Boys, childhood, children, depressive symptoms, fathers|0 Comments

Up to 1 in 5 children suffer from a mental disorder, CDC says

Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In the agency's first-ever study of mental disorders [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-19T18:41:12+10:00May 19th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: adults, childhood, children, chronic health problems, cognitive development, Disease Control and Prevention, emotional development, mental disorder, mental illnesses, social development|2 Comments

The backlash against 24/7 connectivity

As every aspect of our daily lives has become hyper-connected, some people on the cutting edge of tech are trying their best to push it back a few feet. Keeping their phone in their pocket. Turning off their home Wi-Fi at night or on weekends. And reading books on paper, rather than pixels. via The [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-19T14:57:00+10:00May 19th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Technology|Tags: books, connectivity, cutting back on internet, lifestyle, technology, Wi-Fi|0 Comments

Who’s looking after the teachers?

I’ve written before about the importance of teacher wellbeing. Yes I know this is the Generation Next not the Generation Was Blog, but I think it is essential to appreciate that if we want our kids to flourish, then it is essential that the adults in their lives are doing likewise. A great deal [...]

By Shridevi|2013-05-18T15:03:10+10:00May 18th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: advice, Safe Work Australia, staff wellbeing, student wellbeing, teacher wellbeing, teachers, workers, Workplace Occupational Health and Safety policy|21 Comments

Modern life causing dementia earlier

Researchers found a sharp rise in the deaths from dementia and other neurological disease in under-74s, and believe that the figures cannot be explained away by the fact we live longer. Instead the “epidemic” is down to the environmental and social changes in the modern world, the authors claim. Of the 10 biggest Western countries [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-13T21:16:12+10:00May 13th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: brain diseases, dementia, environmental changes, neurological deaths, neurological disease, social changes|0 Comments

Four ways to thrive at work

When it comes to your work and your life, would you confidently describe yourself as “thriving”? Research published in 2002 shows around seven out of every 10 people are in the languishing zone – in other words, just getting by. The Corey Keyes paper published in the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour studied data [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-05-16T20:12:40+10:00May 13th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: adults, Flourishing, Health and Social Behaviour, Increasing Productivity, languishers, personal lives, professional lives, thriving|0 Comments